Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought

Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought
Title Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought PDF eBook
Author John Wall
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 316
Release 2002
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780415938433

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought

Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought
Title Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought PDF eBook
Author William Schweiker
Publisher Routledge
Pages 296
Release 2020-10-28
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1000101193

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This book explores and proposes new avenues for contemporary moral thought. It defines and assesses the significance of the writings of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur for ethics. The book also explores what matters most to persons and how best to sustain just communities.

Moral Creativity

Moral Creativity
Title Moral Creativity PDF eBook
Author John Wall
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 245
Release 2005-08-11
Genre Religion
ISBN 0198040253

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In Moral Creativity, John Wall argues that moral life and thought are inherently and radically creative. Human beings are called by their own primordially created depths to exceed historical evil and tragedy through the ongoing creative transformation of their world. This thesis challenges ancient Greek and biblical separations of ethics and poetic image-making, as well as contemporary conceptions of moral life as grounded in abstract principles or preconstituted traditions. Taking as his point of departure the poetics of the will of Paul Ricoeur, and ranging widely into critical conversations with Continental, narrative, feminist, and liberationist ethics, Wall uncovers the profound senses in which moral practice and thought involve tension, catharsis, excess, and renewal. In the process, he draws new connections between sin and tragedy, practice and poetics, and morality and myth. Rather than proposing a complete ethics, Moral Creativity is a meta-ethical work investigating the creative capability as part of what it means, morally, to be human. This capability is explored around four dimensions of ontology, teleology, deontology, and social practice. In each case, Wall examines a traditional perspective on the relation of ethics to poetics, critiques it using resources from contemporary phenomenology, and develops a conception of a more original poetics of moral life. In the end, moral creativity is a human capability for inhabiting tensions among others and in social systems and, in the image of a Creator, creating together an ever more radically inclusive moral world.

Ricoeur as Another

Ricoeur as Another
Title Ricoeur as Another PDF eBook
Author Richard A. Cohen
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 260
Release 2002-01-24
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780791451908

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Leading scholars address Paul Ricoeur's last major work, Oneself as Another.

The Just

The Just
Title The Just PDF eBook
Author Paul Ricoeur
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 196
Release 2000
Genre Law
ISBN 9780226713403

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The essays in this book contain some of Paul Ricoeur's most fascinating ruminations on the nature of justice and the law. His thoughts ranging across a number of topics and engaging the work of thinkers both classical and contemporary, Ricoeur offers a series of important reflections on the juridical and the philosophical concepts of right and the space between moral theory and politics.

Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative

Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative
Title Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative PDF eBook
Author W. David Hall
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 210
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 079147982X

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This book addresses the thought of Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005), paying particular attention to the creative tension between love and justice as principle themes in his work. Dealing with these issues chiefly in his writings on religion, Ricoeur explored the tension between the biblical ideals of the golden rule—the religious formulation of a principle of justice—and the love command. Author W. David Hall shows how these ideals continually speak to each other in Ricoeur's work, how they operate creatively on each other, and how each serves as a corrective to the perversions of the other. Hall maintains that although issues of love and justice became prominent comparatively late in Ricoeur's corpus, they provide a sustained trajectory throughout his work and are an important interpretive key for understanding Ricoeur's intellectual project as a whole.

Paul Ricoeur's Moral Anthropology

Paul Ricoeur's Moral Anthropology
Title Paul Ricoeur's Moral Anthropology PDF eBook
Author Geoffrey Dierckxsens
Publisher Lexington Books
Pages 267
Release 2017-12-20
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1498545211

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Paul Ricœur’s Moral Anthropology is a guide for readers who are interested in Paul Ricœur’s thoughts on morals in general, bringing together the different aspects of what Geoffrey Dierckxsens understands as Ricœur’s moral anthropology. This anthropology addresses the question what it means to be human, capable of participating in moral life. Dierckxsens argues that Ricœur shows that this participation implies being a self, living a singular lived existence with others and being responsible in institutions of justice. Through experiencing life one comes to learn taking moral decisions and the reasons for moral life. The wager of Ricœur’s hermeneutical approach to moral anthropology is—so Dierckxsens argues—to understand moral life on the basis of the interpretation of lived existence, rather than on the basis of cultural or natural patterns only, like many contemporary moral theories in analytical philosophy. Ricœur’s moral anthropology is thus particularly timely in that it offers a critical argument against contemporary moral relativism and reductionism. By bringing together Ricœur’s moral anthropology, and recent moral theories this book offers a novel perspective on Ricœur’s already well-established moral theory. Dierckxsens moreover offers a critical perspective by arguing that we should revisit certain moral concepts in Ricœur’s moral anthropology and in contemporary moral theories in analytical philosophy. He evaluates certain concepts in Ricœur’s work, such as the concept of universal moral norms and how it stands against cultural differences in morals. He moreover interrogates certain ideas of contemporary analytical philosophy, such as the idea of cultural moral relativism and whether we can find a common morality across the cultural differences. By placing Ricœur’s ideas on moral life within the context of the contemporary scene of moral theory, this book contributes well to Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricœur.